GUID Version

Schematic
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Hi,
I was poking around in RFCs about GUID and I see there are about 5 different versions.

I am about to generate a bunch of footprints and I was curious if there is a preferred version? Probably does not matter but I thought I would ask,

Thanks,
Bob K.

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Version 4 per the file format documentation.

I believe if you generate footprints without a UUID, KiCad will automatically generate them when it reads the file (and then save them into the footprint when you save). So you could try generating your footprints without a UUID, then doing a batch save (you could probably use kicad-cli fp upgrade --force).

Haven’t verified either of the above comments, though, so this advice is worth what you paid for it :slight_smile:

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Thank you. I have the S Expressions document right next to me and I missed the Version 4 reference.

Thanks Again,
Bob K.